Record Date and Place
I am indexing and reviewing US, New York—Eastern District Naturalization Records, 1906–1957. In the project instructions it reads on the example for Petition of Naturalization, "Please Note: For petitions for naturalization that have a date recorded only in the affidavit of witnesses section, type that date in the appropriate fields. Do not include any other information from affidavits of witnesses."
If there is no affidavit of witness on the front, should the record date and place come from the back page where the affidavit is? Or should the record date just be left blank. That is providing that you know that the back of the page is the for the same person (using oath of allegiance to verify that they belong to the same person).
Thank you in advance.
Best Answer
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For those records, the record date comes from the back side of the page. There should be two dates on the back; the affidavit of witnesses date, which, generally speaking, will be the record date for Image 1, then a later date (usually a few months later), that is the Oath of Allegiance date, which will be the record date for Image 2. As for the place, that comes from the front of the document. For this project, it's city and state (ie, Brooklyn, New York) only.
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